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Can we say 40K?: Ex Tenebris is a gothic space TTRPG from Black Armada

September 10, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Josh Fox, known for games like Lovecraftesque, is the designer of Black Armada’s latest game. Ex Tenebris is already through the pledge goal.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black armada, kickstarters, Kieron Gillen

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #229

November 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised in a summary of TTRPG news published each week.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black armada, diablo, Dungeons & Dragons, extra life, mork borg, pathfinder, routinely itemised, wizards of the coast

Lovecraftesque 2e: Together, you’ll die alone

October 11, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lovecraftesque is also a Lovecraftian game that directly challenges H.P. Lovecraft’s racism and deconstructs negative ideas about mental health that had become synonymous with cosmic horror.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, black armada, crowdfunding, horror, Lovecraftesque

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #224

September 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s RPG news summaries column that reaches out to RPGers everywhere on Friday evenings as a one-stop review, discoveries, tips and interviews posts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black armada, calendar, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, evil genius productions, horror, Lovecraftesque, rebel moon, routinely itemised

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #219

August 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news summary column that features reviews, discoveries, tips, and interviews. It is published every Friday night for RPG enthusiasts everywhere.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: beowulf, black armada, cody pondsmith, handiwork games, R. Talsorian Games, routinely itemised

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #189

January 27, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised’s RPG news wraps up what might be the last of OGL drama (before the next wave starts), finds non-OGL news, more bundle deals and new releases.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: afterlife, black armada, hasbro, mothership, routinely itemised, severed books, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #106

June 25, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A busy week of RPG news summarised and segmented into bullet-point lists. TSR Games have TSR Games over a barrel.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 1985 games, a couple of drakes, Andrews McMeel, Atlas Games, black armada, Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide, Bully Pulpit Games, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, dark alliance, dead channel studios, degenesis, dms guild, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, edge, Elven Tower, en publishing, Eventyr Games, fiasco, Fighting Fantasy, flying buffalo, good strong hands, Green Ronin Publishing, grim & perilous studios, itch.io, Lovecraftesque, Malleus Monstrorum, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, routinely itemised, scp, sixmorevodka, Skirmisher Publishing, SLA Industries, star frontiers, star trek adventures, storm bunny studios, tabletops & tentacles, third eye games, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, trollish delver games, tsr games, tunnels & trolls, Venger Satanis, warhammer, warlock, wayfinder's guide to eberron, wizkids, world of darkness, wrath & glory, zweihander

Black Armada announce Lovecraftesque 2nd edition and playtest

June 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The core of the game is the same as ever: you play a lone, isolated Witness who stumbles upon a cosmic secret and (probably) meets a terrible end.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Becky Annison, black armada, horror, lovecraft, Lovecraftesque

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #102

May 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news at bullet point speed for fast-find new releases, interviews, reviews and bundle deals. An at-a-glance catch-up of the recent RPG headlines.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, adventurers league, black armada, blades in the dark, bloat games, bundle of holding, city of mist, cubicle 7, Cults of the Blood Gods, daniel kwan, diego pisa artworks, dms guild, drow, Green Ronin Publishing, headless hydra press, hero forge, humble bundle, jackals, journey, kingdom, knock!, kobold press, last fleet, Malleus Monstrorum, micro rpg, mighty narwhal productions, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, morra, Nova, philip reed, planescape, Ptolus, realmwarp media, Renegade Game Studios, rifts, roll20, routinely itemised, Shawn Tomkin, SLA Industries, Son of Oak Game Studio, the expanse rpg, the troubleshooters, World Anvil

Under pressure sci-fi excellence: A review of Last Fleet

May 23, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last Fleet is an excellent game, truly it’s great. I mean, as a player, you may love to hate Fox, but the game is still great.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: black armada, Joshua Frost, last fleet, reviews

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